Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered.

I am your host, Mary Katzen Ham, coming to you from Chicago and the Democratic National

Convention.

I am joined by my co-host, Vic Maddox, who is back in the state.

Back stateside, we'll hear about his trip and more.

There's lots of news from yesterday at the DNC,

and we'll probably give you some bonus episodes this week,

as I am in Chicago with the libs all week and we'll keep

you updated on it. Vic, here on our morning show for any hour, how are you doing today?

Hello, Mary Catherine. I'm doing fine, though I guess at this point in time, it's about four

o'clock in the afternoon. So I'm doing fine now. And around two or three

in the afternoon, I tend to get really sleepy. And then eight o'clock, I really conk out. Translation,

I think I missed day one of the DNC. But I caught up on highlights or low lights, if you

will. So we'll get to that in a moment.

I've got a lot of things going on.

Obviously, it was an amazing experience.

I'll parcel it out throughout the week because, you know, we have all special treats for our listeners here.

It's the content that they want.

So just really briefly, it's just an intro, which is through my wife's, I went on a World War

Two trip with my son. It's a, it's what you call a staff ride in which all the participants

on the trip, and there's about 14 of us, and they're all young professionals, and it's sort

to create this awareness of the importance of America in World War II and the sacrifice of our of our soldiers. But there was about 14

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